Rate My Professor Paige Toller

Toller's research focuses on grief communication, family identity and communication amid severe mental illness, end-of-life communication, and health communication. Her studies examine the communicative challenges families navigate during illness, loss, and bereavement. Select publications include “She’s not the child we had”: How parents reconstruct their child’s identity to include violence and mental illness (2023); Intergenerational conversations on death and dying during the COVID-19 pandemic: A pedagogical approach (2022); Begin with the End in Mind: A three-part workshop series to facilitate end-of-life discussions with members of the community (2018); Family Identity Disrupted by Mental Illness and Violence: An Application of Relational Dialectics Theory (2017); Communication and Bereavement (2015 chapter); Speaking Ill of the Dead: Anonymity and Communication About Suicide on MyDeathSpace.com (2012); Negotiation of Face between Bereaved Parents and Their Social Networks (2011); Bereaved Parents' Negotiation of Identity Following the Death of a Child (2008); and Bereaved Parents' Contradictions of Marital Interaction (2009). Toller received the UNO Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award in 2019. Her expertise supports media inquiries on mental health, family communication, and grief.